Jesus Christ. Thus he could exhort Timothy to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (II Tim. 2:3). In our Galatian passage, he says in effect that he has suffered enough from the Judaizers who dogged his footsteps for many long years, and that his body scarred as the result of suffering for his Lord, should be enough to cause them to let him alone in his declining years and give him a little time of peace and rest. So, as the bearing (bastazo (βασταζο)) of a particular amulet associated